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Naomi O'Leary

@naomiohreally.bsky.social
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Irish Times Europe Correspondent currently on assignment in Paris. Podcaster. Best email me to get in touch ⬇️ www.irishtimes.com/author/naomi-ole…

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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 7h
The ads "had been used to compromise 45 Windows devices at the Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera between 2024 and 2025"
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 8h
Raphaël Glucksmann made a documentary on the Rwandan genocide and successfully campaigned for France to recognise "genocide targeting the Uyghurs". His refusal to use the term for Gaza now hovers over his campaign as the French centre-left's presidential candidate www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
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Raphaël Glucksmann’s refusal to use the word ‘genocide’ divides France’s left
Splitting the electorate has been disastrous for the left, but their differences appear too deep to repair before presidential election
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 9h
Dublin 🤝 Budapest
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The homeless millionaire. He was a familiar figure to Galway residents, sitting on the same bench day after day. When he died, it transpired he left behind an estate of €1.29 million. I tracked down Victor Spaggiari’s family in Italy to understand why: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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‘An intelligent, nonconformist man’: Galway’s homeless millionaire
‘An intelligent, interesting, nonconformist man’ – we speak to the people he interacted with in the city
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/10/2026
Yet again, the EU surrenders to Trump. After facing pressure from the US State Department, @kajakallas.bsky.social's EU foreign service pulled out of a conference this week at the last minute – because one of the panels dared to discuss American disinfo in Europe.
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Protest is taken seriously in France as a civic act, and the involvement of young people can give it a sense of moral force. But instances of arson and violence has soured the attitudes of some. My piece on France’s moment of challenge in the Irish Times www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
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Inside the school protests in France that have spiralled into arson and street violence
Sense of chaos feeds into election campaign, with Marine Le Pen promising to reestablish ‘order’
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Paris teenagers are largely dressed like any 15 to 18-year-olds who went off to school that morning with their backpacks. But moving among them are the daredevils and instigators, with their faces concealed by balaclavas. The blackened detritus of a burnt bin and a rental e-bike lie to one side
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“I think we all felt we have to go and stand with our friends.” - Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social
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‘Everybody wants this to end’: Protestant group pushes UK government to end Drumcree standoff
Standoff entered sixth day on Friday as residents prepare to lodge fresh legal challenge on Monday
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The EU would be happy to have the UK back. The main condition I see would be to sort your issues out, ie no longer use the EU as a way of litigating internal divisions.
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Where does the idea that the UK would have to be in Schengen and join the Euro come from? I personally don‘t see the EU insisting on that
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Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is just a sentence that gets progressively more fabulous with each word
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Macron rearranged his schedule at the last minute to attend mass, getting in on the popular feeling and bumping the local mayor as host as Pope Leo proved an unexpected hit www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
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‘Leomania’: How secular France fell for the Pope
Macron makes sudden decision to attend Mass as pope draws large crowds
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
...the pedestrianisation on the literal street where I live and most of my toddler's route to creche. Reading the manifesto was extremely personal, like: ok, you are campaigning for my kid to be more likely to be hit by a car each morning? That candidate was not elected.
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pedestrianisations and cycle lanes are often accompanied by huge controversy right up until they are implemented, and then they become enormously popular. Part of the reason is the positive change is so immediate and tangible. In the Paris mayor election this year, one candidate wanted to reverse...
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Because it’s an expression of dominance and territorial control
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Alone and fleeing scandal, a 23-year-old gave birth in a Catholic mother and baby home in 1917. The surname she chose for her baby, ‘Prevost’, endured down the decades, becoming the name of her grandson, Pope Leo XIV. My piece on the pope’s family secret: www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
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Pope Leo’s family secret: a birth in a mother and baby home
The pope’s French surname, Prevost, was an invention to conceal a birth outside of wedlock
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joseph de Maistre having the last laugh
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Staff at the Elysée Palace gather at a window to catch a glimpse of the arrival of Pope Leo
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rehearsals are underway for Saturday’s large outdoor mass led by Pope Leo in Place de la Concorde in Paris
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Do I have any followers who I could speak to for advice about publishing a poetry collection?
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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
President von der Leyen: "Europe will always lead when it comes to defending the rules-based system." Meanwhile, in the real world: euobserver.com/226421/the-i...
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The ICC is in its worst crisis yet — and Europe’s double standards are a big part of the problem
A tribunal created for one conflict — while acts of aggression in the Middle East and Latin America go unanswered — serves the court’s critics their strongest argument on a silver platter: that intern...
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 09/09/2026
Norwegian media reports that Zelensky’s plane was nearly hit by a drone on its way from Moldova to Oslo where he went to attend King Harald’s funeral and hold meetings with the government. www.nrk.no/nyheter/stor...
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Støre: Zelenskyjs fly ble nesten truffet av en drone på vei fra Moldova til Oslo
Ukrainas president Volodymyr Zelenskyj fikk en dramatisk start på reisen til Oslo, hvor han onsdag deltok i kong Haralds gravferd og var i møter med regjeringen. – Flyet hans ble nesten truffet av en ...
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congrats, that's a great idea
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni faces a challenge from the right — a macho ex general whose party manifesto says Italy should be a “Mediterranean patriarchy” and delivers critiques of her policies on Instagram while holding melons to his chest www.irishtimes.com/world/2026/0...
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Meloni faces a challenge
Macho ex-general calls for a ‘Mediterranean patriarchy’
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Back on the best balcony in Paris
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Glen Campbell @glenkcampbell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are recruiting an Irish Language Editor at the EU Publications Office! ⁣⁣📍 Location: Luxembourg ⁣ 📌 Grade: AST 1, AST 2, AST 3 📅 Deadline: 11 September 2026, 12:00 (Brussels time) ⁣ 🔎 Read the notice on: link.europa.eu/cRFqNR @michaelmcgratheu.bsky.social @naomiohreally.bsky.social
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Great fun shooting today with photographer Steph Murray - there are still slots available if you want to get involved
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Orla Breslin @stitchlily.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026
They are still looking for people for this amazing photography project! In #Dublin and #Cork Can't go myself, but would be lovely to see a load of big Irish happy heads, alongside members of Navaho and Hopi people. #SpéirGhorm
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Photo sessions are in Dublin on August 27-28 and in Cork on August 29. You can sign up here. It’s for a photography exhibition and eventual book by photographer Steph Murray evite.me/9yMpkHryjT
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SignUp Sheet | Evite
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Do you remember when a fundraising campaign for the Navajo and Hopi people went viral during the pandemic, as people recalled the generosity of native Americans to Irish people during the famine? If you were one of those who donated - you are invited to have your photo taken …
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Thomas Piketty tried to cut off the interview four minutes in. I managed to keep him on the line - just - and he told me about his proposal to tax billionaires to curb climate change and why he thinks Ireland should change its economic model www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Thomas Piketty: Ireland’s economic model is damaging to other countries
French economist is co-director of World Inequality Lab, which is proposing an average monthly income of €5,000 per person by 2100
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thomas Piketty Irelands economic model harms other countries, speaking to @naomiohreally.bsky.social in this morning’s Irish Times www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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echancrure.bsky.social @echancrure.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p... Excellent from @naomiohreally.bsky.social. Nothing hidden in that interview; it was worth it to persevere. Ireland's selfish runaway capitalism does not sort housing, environment, health, inequality, or multilateralism. More debate like this is needed.
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Thomas Piketty: Ireland’s economic model is damaging to other countries
French economist is co-director of World Inequality Lab, which is proposing an average monthly income of €5,000 per person by 2100
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Personally, every time I’ve moved country I’ve had to figure out what to buy in the supermarket all over again. Italy, Netherlands, Spain, France, got into a groove there each time and was completely bewildered when I landed in the new place and had no idea what to buy or eat
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is the guy we go for for the same role
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Irish Wildlife Trust @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Irish Wildlife Trust are disappointed to see the number of newspaper articles reporting on this accident without giving the details of what happened. @irishenvnet.bsky.social @fairseas.ie #BlueShark #IrishSharks
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Watching the eclipse over Dublin
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The fallout of the Belfast Fleadh is so cute though
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm loathe to share this man, but this one is personal. My masters thesis was on the MMR controversy, so believe me when I say that this path of separation of the MMR will result in nothing but increased sales of too-small coffins, and children with life-altering medical conditions.
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Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“For me the intention here is to fragment human thinking even further,” he said, “to make people question even more their critical thinking abilities.” A great report by Derek Scally about the pillaging of intellectuals resources. www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
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A ‘bananas’ order for 5,000 obscure titles from a bookshop in Galway fuels suspicion
Independent retailers are receiving vast orders for obscure titles, fuelling suspicions that AI companies are quietly building the next generation of chatbots
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“The Camorra buys entire buildings in the neighbourhoods and alleys and converts them into B&B,” @robertosaviano.bsky.social told me. My piece on how the mafia is cashing in on Naples’ tourism boom www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
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‘Tourists are untouchable’: How Naples’ mafia is cashing in on the city’s boom
As visitors flock to the Italian city in record numbers, the Camorra has found lucrative new opportunities in bars, B&Bs and beach businesses
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The wildfire outside Bordeaux showed the risks of highly flammable pine plantations - the native tree growth was much more fire resistant
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The megaphone given to an extreme-right framing of this incident by supposedly centrist politicians is a gift to their harder right political competitors
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A playbook repeated from Turkey to Norway to Belarus. Rather than recognising it Europe’s right took an opportunity to pile on to a centre-left leader they resent: domestic troubles aside, Sanchez has outperformed them on economic growth while seeing a green energy switch pay off
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
You can read my report here www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
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‘We couldn’t just stay home’: On night patrol with volunteer army fighting Bordeaux wildfires
From surf instructors to farmers, residents of France’s Atlantic coast have mobilised to help stop the country’s largest wildfire reigniting
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The team was: two surfing instructors, a carpenter, a shop assistant… we ran into an Air France cabin crew member out there in the wood… all locals who couldn’t stand by and see their home area burn
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I joined a night watch patrol with some of the army of volunteers working to keep the Gironde wildfire outside Bordeaux from reigniting.
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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A Government investigation into Aughinish Alumina was unable to get hold of "confidential" documents from Sweden relating to the plant's alleged ownership by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska It turns out the documents are available publicly for a €25 admin fee www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Aughinish investigators did not obtain Swedish document available for €25 fee
Authorities said they were unable to obtain specific information – but judgment is publicly accessible
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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wonder if this error was introduced by an AI transcription software. They always interpret Irish words in creatively bizarre ways. In any case, just knowing that this kind of thing happens is almost enough to give me a panic attack and quit journalism
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